Class discussion of Lu Xun's 'Diary of a Madman' and its relationship to the New Culture Movement, as well as its place in transnational understandings of Modernism.
Now this is how literature should be taught! I learnt more in this hour than during a whole semester. I only wish my literature teacher was only a fraction as good as this lecturer is... Thank you!
it 's the first time i understand lu xun's Madman's diary, in your class. I'm a chinese students and curious about whether other people around the world know about chinese literature! JUst respectful to you, Dr MIchael Moir. We love your lectures.
Impressive, I am a freshman college student and was coming to watch this video as a review before class ( we read madman and Preface to a call to age). I was not expecting to learn so much about language and its relation to Confucius, “modern learning”, etc… Thank you so much for the information! Have you made many videos about China and Koreas isolation movements and how western influence affected it?
This is great! We need to add more eastern philosophy and literature to the curriculum. There are universal truths that are merely part of the "human condition", these truths are universal and maybe the only thing that brings us together as humans. For example: Taoism and stoicism are very similar in many ways.
I would like to listen to more Luxun's books analysis! Thank u for the uploading. I am studying his books, but it is taking me much more time because I read them in Chinese.
I know it is difficult to pronounce Chinese names, so I figured I would let you know that your pronunciation of words like Xun and Qing are off. Chinese has two different sound that represent our "sh" and "ch". So when writing these in Latin letters, Q was used to represent one "ch" sound and X was used for "sh". Because of this and the "un", Xun is pronounced more like "shween", likewise Qing is pronounced "ching". Keep up the great lessons.
Thank God the North Germans don't run around the Internet telling everyone how to pronounce stuff their way, because in reality every German speaking community has in fact their own way of pronouncing words. Someone from Vienna has an entirely different way to pronounce than someone from Zurich or Berlin, yet it's all German language. What is correct: làjí, lèsè, la chi, lah-sap, lap-gip, or laap6 saap3? Everything is, somewhere.
@@lamkaichengguo7903 unless he can't read Chinese😁 Translating from one language to the other will always result in some meaning lost or changed slightly or significantly.
I think he would have supported it at first like he supported the establishing of the new republic but quickly would have disliked it, also like he did with the republic.
@@OrochiShaka that’s right. Luxun is rational, sarcastic, and forward-thinking. In the beginning, he would support it, but after witness another type of “mind being confined”, he must be the first one to abhor it . Luxun is mind-clear than most of us.
with all due respect。Yi Ya lived during the Spring and Autumn Period in the State of Qi. He was Duke Huan of Qi's beloved chef. Once, Duke Huan of Qi had commented that the only food that he had yet to try was the flesh of an infant. Upon hearing this, Yi Ya steamed his own infant and served it to Huan. Jie and Zhou, however, were tyrant kings of an earlier age. The narrator is mistaken here, perhaps reflecting his mental state。 What ambiguity does this reflects?
does anyone know the version of translation that is quoted here? the copy I have (translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang) did not convey the difference between Classical Chinese and vernacular chinese very well. im also trying to explain this point to English speaking audiences lol
Dream, imagination and illusion are not real until that really happen, ambigious for you but not for ppl who r on the same lvl or have exp things that couldn't be understand by normal ppl, when ppl said someone sick, is like you define something you r not yet realise yourself..
1:03:00 In Chinese, the word he uses 'mother and father' in Chinese contain some sense of dirty word, like 'mother fuck' in English. 1:05:20 'Save the chlidren' means save the children from been eaten, and save them from to eat. 1:06:05 actually, the lion, the rabbit and the fox, were not represent 3 kind of people, those 3 characters are exactly embodied in those normal people, to vulnerable people and children, they are lion, to sovereign and upper class, they are rabbit, to their neighbors, they are as cunning as fox.
Now this is how literature should be taught!
I learnt more in this hour than during a whole semester.
I only wish my literature teacher was only a fraction as good as this lecturer is...
Thank you!
I cannot forget a madman can write a dairy.Superb ideas.
it 's the first time i understand lu xun's Madman's diary, in your class. I'm a chinese students and curious about whether other people around the world know about chinese literature! JUst respectful to you, Dr MIchael Moir. We love your lectures.
草，我也是兴致勃勃跑过来看鲁迅在国外的知名度
@@kevinyang8951who kao. Wo. He. She.
This professor is great. He's always my first source I look to when I have a new reading for class (minimum: once a week)
Professor with long hair , moustache, and lecturing on Diary of Mad Man, wow!.. fit in perfectly.
I am laughing ❤
I have long hair and beard too. What are you implying?
Lu Xun the banner holder of the New Culture Movement. The logo was Science and Democracy, renassaince in China's history.
Impressive, I am a freshman college student and was coming to watch this video as a review before class ( we read madman and Preface to a call to age). I was not expecting to learn so much about language and its relation to Confucius, “modern learning”, etc… Thank you so much for the information!
Have you made many videos about China and Koreas isolation movements and how western influence affected it?
This is great! We need to add more eastern philosophy and literature to the curriculum. There are universal truths that are merely part of the "human condition", these truths are universal and maybe the only thing that brings us together as humans. For example: Taoism and stoicism are very similar in many ways.
I would like to listen to more Luxun's books analysis! Thank u for the uploading. I am studying his books, but it is taking me much more time because I read them in Chinese.
Thank you so much!! This definitely helped me understand the reading of "A Diary of a Madman"!
Thank you for this lecture!! Very interesting and helpful to understanding the text
Very interesting. The teacher is excellent and brought me into the subject really well
Thank you, Dr. Moir! Your lecture has given me much to think about. :)
I know it is difficult to pronounce Chinese names, so I figured I would let you know that your pronunciation of words like Xun and Qing are off.
Chinese has two different sound that represent our "sh" and "ch". So when writing these in Latin letters, Q was used to represent one "ch" sound and X was used for "sh".
Because of this and the "un", Xun is pronounced more like "shween", likewise Qing is pronounced "ching".
Keep up the great lessons.
Thank God the North Germans don't run around the Internet telling everyone how to pronounce stuff their way, because in reality every German speaking community has in fact their own way of pronouncing words. Someone from Vienna has an entirely different way to pronounce than someone from Zurich or Berlin, yet it's all German language. What is correct: làjí, lèsè, la chi, lah-sap, lap-gip, or laap6 saap3? Everything is, somewhere.
Feldenkrais with Alfons it’s a name, there’s a correct way to pronounce a name.
Must be a good professor, based on the quality of his students.
Hmmm, seems the English translation is drastically different from the version I've read...
You gotta read the Chinese version
@@lamkaichengguo7903 unless he can't read Chinese😁 Translating from one language to the other will always result in some meaning lost or changed slightly or significantly.
I wonder how Lu Xun would have written if he had known what the Cultural Revolution would be like.
I think he would have supported it at first like he supported the establishing of the new republic but quickly would have disliked it, also like he did with the republic.
@@OrochiShaka that’s right. Luxun is rational, sarcastic, and forward-thinking. In the beginning, he would support it, but after witness another type of “mind being confined”, he must be the first one to abhor it . Luxun is mind-clear than most of us.
OrochiShaka I believe that
讲的很好，谢谢。
狂人日记！
with all due respect。Yi Ya lived during the Spring and Autumn Period in the State of Qi. He was Duke Huan of Qi's beloved chef. Once, Duke Huan of Qi had commented that the only food that he had yet to try was the flesh of an infant. Upon hearing this, Yi Ya steamed his own infant and served it to Huan. Jie and Zhou, however, were tyrant kings of an earlier age. The narrator is mistaken here, perhaps reflecting his mental state。 What ambiguity does this reflects?
That describe His He feel about it by making ppl imagine ths familiar madness they know
thank you for this!!
does anyone know the version of translation that is quoted here? the copy I have (translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang) did not convey the difference between Classical Chinese and vernacular chinese very well. im also trying to explain this point to English speaking audiences lol
Dream, imagination and illusion are not real until that really happen, ambigious for you but not for ppl who r on the same lvl or have exp things that couldn't be understand by normal ppl, when ppl said someone sick, is like you define something you r not yet realise yourself..
Cixi Empress was referred to as the fox usually
Thanks professor!
23:13 the student who answered the question drew a sigh sounds like "I know everything" :))
1:03:00 In Chinese, the word he uses 'mother and father' in Chinese contain some sense of dirty word, like 'mother fuck' in English.
1:05:20 'Save the chlidren' means save the children from been eaten, and save them from to eat.
1:06:05 actually, the lion, the rabbit and the fox, were not represent 3 kind of people, those 3 characters are exactly embodied in those normal people, to vulnerable people and children, they are lion, to sovereign and upper class, they are rabbit, to their neighbors, they are as cunning as fox.
are they talking about Lu XUN from dynasty warriors
PROMPTO ARGENTUM not the commander of wu，but the chinese novelist
那是‘陆逊’ 这是 ‘鲁迅’ 中文拥有非常多同音字。
3:00, 15:00
I am pondering how a madman can possibly write a dairy if his brain is insane.😮
鲁迅，周树人
Good lecture, but dude, you seriously need a haircut.
Thanks mom
@@DeeDeeCHAUNCEY Hahahahaha,great one